Essai Sur La Construction Navale Des Peuples Extra-Européens Ou Collection Des Navires Et Pirogues Construits Par Les Habitants De L'Asie, De La Malaisie, Du Grand Océan Et De L'Amérique dessinés et mesurés Par M. Paris, Capitaine De Corvette Pendant Les Voyages Autour Du Monde De L'Astrolabe, La Favorite Et L'Artémise Publié Par Ordre Du Roi sous les auspices de M. le Ministre de la Marine (Atlas)

François Edmond Pâris

RA Collection: Book

Record number

06/4926

Author

Imprint

Paris: Arthus Bertrand, Libraire, Éditeur Des Nouvelles Annales Des Voyages, Rue Hautefeuille, 23. - Imprimerie Bouchard-Huzard., [1841]

Physical Description

2 vols in one; 546 mm. (Folio.)

General Note

Vol. I: [6], 156 p. - Vol. II: [4] p., 132 pl.

Contents

Vol. I: [T.p.] - Préface - [Text]; [colophon]. - Vol. II: [T.p.] - Table Des Planches Et Descriptions ... - [Plates].

Responsibility Note

The outline drawings are signed as drawn by Pâris, engraved by Adam et Lemaitre, and printed by N. Rémond. The lithographs are signed as drawn by Pâris or Sabatier, lithographed by Sabatier, Mazin or Lehnert, and printed by Lemercier, Benard et Cie. or by Formentin et Cie.

Each plate carries the imprint of the publisher, Arthus-Bertrand.

The name of the text printer is repeated in the colophon in the first volume: 'Imprimerie De Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard, Rue De L'Éperon, 7.'

Summary Note

The second part has its own title page, identical with that of the first part except for the addition of the word 'Atlas' after the words 'Ministre de la Marine'.

About half the plates are outline drawings showing the plans and construction of ships; the rest are lithographs showing views of the ships in use at sea.

Provenance

The verso of the front free-endpaper is inscribed 'S.A.H.', i.e. S.A. Hart, librarian of the Royal Academy 1864-81. Purchased for RA Library in 1881 (see RA Annual Report for 1881, p. 46).

Binding Note

19th-century half red morocco, red cloth-covered boards; spine lettered 'Essai Sur La Construction Navale Des Peuples Extra-Européens' and 'R.A.'

Subject

Boats - Ships - Sailing ships - Shipbuilding - Marine engineering - Naval architecture - Asia - Africa - America - Pacific Region - History
Essays - Treatises - Ships plans - Plans - Sections - Views - Seascapes - Marines (visual works) - France - 19th century
Pictorial works - Lithographs - France - 19th century

Contributors

François Edmond Pâris, draughtsman
Leon Sabatier, lithographer
Pierre Frédéric Lehnert, lithographer
Imprimerie Lemercier, Benard & Compagnie, lithographic printer